Diamonds crash to lowest prices this century as Bitcoin surges past them
The decline in natural diamond prices, exacerbated by lab-grown alternatives, threatens mining economies and highlights shifting investment trends.
The Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) purchased $76,000,000 worth of BTC over the past week. Strategy says it accumulated 950 Bitcoin at an average purchase price of $79,670 per BTC, stretching their total holdings to 846,000 BTC.
The surge highlights Binance's dominant influence on crypto markets, potentially increasing volatility and impacting global trading dynamics.
September 21, 2026, 8:21 pmA lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X's now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program.
September 21, 2026, 8:16 pmThe decline in natural diamond prices, exacerbated by lab-grown alternatives, threatens mining economies and highlights shifting investment trends.
Bitcoin climbed above $85,000 after 69,494 wallets disappeared from two smaller-holder balance groups during the July-August downturn. Santiment argues that the earlier capitulation reduced reactive supply before the latest rally.
The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version.
Bitcoin’s price rallied past $86,000, achieving a 6% daily gain and pushing its market capitalization to $1.72 trillion. The move brought the asset near its Jan. 1 opening price of $87,575, narrowing year-to-date losses to under 2%.
Bitcoin’s rally toward $86,000 has pushed US spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors back into profit after months underwater. Data from CryptoSlate showed Bitcoin gained about 6% over the past 24 hours, extending its September rebound and briefly trading near $86,000.
Traders betting against Bitcoin are getting wrecked to start the week, with nearly $1 billion in leveraged bets wiped out as BTC’s price punches through $86,000. In the last 24 hours, $930.04 million in leveraged crypto bets have been liquidated, says CoinGlass. Most of that is shorts. Bitcoin shorts alone come to $454.95 million.
Wallets tied to the Official Trump memecoin team have routed about 8.4 million TRUMP, worth roughly $18 million, into OKX deposit addresses since the token’s Sept. 18 unlock. The Transfers, in Order Last week, onchain sleuths reported that a TRUMP team address had moved out 11.25 million tokens, worth $26 million, on Sept.
Circle is bringing Bitcoin-backed borrowing to institutional clients, allowing them to tap BTC holdings for USDC liquidity without selling their Bitcoin.
Bitcoin crossed the $86,000 mark for the first time since late January as falling oil prices and concerns over supply lifted US stocks.